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ASIA AFGHANISTAN Afghan peace talks may be approaching a breakthrough, but it's come at a high cost. The United Nations says that 2018 was the deadliest year for civilians in at least the last decade, with 3804 killed: In a report released Sunday, the United Nations attributed almost two-thirds of civilian casualties — 63 percent … Continue reading Asia/Africa update: February 23-24 2019

SYRIA The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Saturday that artillery fire from the SDF killed at least 42 people in the remaining ISIS-controlled enclave in eastern Syria, including 13 civilians. ISIS's remaining territory is so rural that there's not even a clear town or village name with which to identify it, though it's in … Continue reading Middle East update: January 26-27 2019

ASIA AFGHANISTAN A car bombing near the international area of Kabul killed at least four people and wounded another 90 on Monday. There's been no claim of responsibility. The Taliban later claimed responsibility. Further talks between US and Taliban representatives are now at risk over the site of the negotiations. The Taliban, which has a diplomatic … Continue reading World update: January 14 2019

CLIMATE CHANGE The COP24 climate summit in Poland ended on Saturday with an agreement on implementing the Paris Climate Accord's carbon emission pledges. But the process was not smooth and the outcome not without its issues: After fraught and much-delayed talks at the COP24 climate change conference here in Polish coal country, more than 190 … Continue reading World update: December 15-16 2018

ASIA SRI LANKA Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Maithripala Sirisena violated the country's constitution when he attempted to dissolve parliament last month so as to install Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister. At this point, it's hard to see what legal choice Sirisena has left but to return Ranil Wickremesinghe to the PM job and … Continue reading Asia/Africa update: December 13 2018

Our technical problems have been resolved so I'm going to give this a shot, but it'll be a rush job so apologies for that. As I said in that earlier post the Thanksgiving holiday means that this will be our last set of updates until next week, though the site isn't going completely dark. We'll … Continue reading Middle East update: November 17-18 2018